Posted by J.O. Aho on 09/28/28 11:41

Steve Kostecke wrote:
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>> Christopher Pettet wrote:
>>> I'm sure this has been asked before but I've just signed up to this
>>> newsgroup and done a search but can't find anything. What I'm
>>> trying to do is to send a page from port 80 to port 6999 but I don't
>>> want the :6999 bit to show in the URL address field. Is it possible
>>> to either mask or hide this within the header("Location:XXX") call?
>>>
>>> In other words, if I enter http://www.mysite.com it finds the site
>>> using the default port 80 but the information I have is actually on
>>> port 6999 so I'm redirecting to http://www.mysite.com:6999 but I
>>> don't want the :6999 to be displayed.
>> The only trick I know of that could work, is that you make a framed
>> page the index.html is at the http://www.mysite.com and it includes
>> one frame and the file is at http://www.mysite.com:6999, this way you
>> won't show your
>> real location.

> Am I the only wh othinks this soudnsl iek the basis for a phishing scam
> site?

Maybe, but what do we know until he posts a link here to show off his new site
or maybe we will see something about him at /. like about the spammer 0x80:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=177830&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=14749523#14749840

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